A/N: Wow, I'm finally updating! NBB, are you off your review strike now? Thanks for the idea, too. I'm using…well, actually, read the chap to find out! The pretty blue review button helps me, too.

BTW- this is 2 weeks later, in the story.

I wanted to do a songfic, so here. The song is "Take Me Back Home" by I-don't-know, but it was in Stuck in the Suburbs. Hello, they had the best music in that movie! Anyway, FYI, Redemption Day is basically the end of the world, when everything goes boom! Just so you know.

I sat up, sighing softly, and realized I was in some sort of forest. What the…

Sora was looking at me. "Ariana?"

I sat up. "Sora!"

He smiled, and his teeth gleamed in the light. "Ariana."

I smiled at him, softly. "Hi. Where am I?"

"Come here, Ariana," he said, smiling.

I was starting to, but suddenly I saw it: his teeth. They were not only gleaming, but they were pointed and…sharp. Oh.

"Come on, Ariana," he soothed.

"No," I said, my voice shaking. "Why?"

"Come here," he repeated.

"But…I don't want to," I finally said.

"Oh, sure you do," he said, and he took a step closer.

Vines came towards me, and they wrapped around my hands. Sora's face was changing now, becoming inhumanly beautiful. His teeth grew to be sharp and gleaming, and two of them extended.

Fangs.

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I shot up in my bed, screaming. I looked at myself, and saw that I was bruised and bleeding. I felt moisture on my face, and touched my head. Quickly, I realized I was bleeding from above my eyebrow. It hurt. A lot.

I'm reaching deeper
down inside of me
for answers to
the questions of honesty.

"Owww, what the heck?" I scowled and tumbled out of bed, grabbing my forehead. When I turned on the light (and my eyes adjusted), I almost cried. "What the HECK?" I screamed again.

Blood soaked my hair, trickled down my forehead, and drenched my white t-shirt. Ugly bruises covered me, bluish-purple against my skin.

I feel like I've fallen from a state of grace.
I know that I can't run from my mistakes.

I scowled, running into my bathroom to get a cloth. I soaked it in water and begged the hole in the wall to spit out some med spray. When it did, I closed my eyes and aimed it at my face. The spray stung for a moment before the nanos started working, and I flinched.

Changing my shirt, I glanced at the book I'd been reading. Twilight, a Rusty-time book I'd picked up during our stay in Tokyo. My wallscreen was playing Blue Bloods, another Rusty-time book that was getting way popular now. It was a huge deal, and a lot of people were surging themselves to have fangs, Chiho and myself included.

Where do you go when you've gone too far?
You open up your arms.

"Wow," I said out loud, studying the wallscreen, then the book. "I've gotta stop with the vampire stuff."

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Kaede's POV

I sat up screaming. What the heck? Why…I stared at my Cloud poster, sighing softly.

I want to believe that love has the heart to
take me home.
Take me back…

"What do I do, Cloud-kun?" I asked the poster.

Music filled my ears. "Great, now I'm going insane?" I groaned.

Then I realized it was my new doorbell. Modeled after Rusty doorbells, they had the same idea but they played through my wallscreen.

I snapped my fingers and they door flew open. "Kaede!"

I shot up. "Ari!"

"And these losers, too," Ariana said, stepping forward. Yuki, Akako, and Chiho stepped in.

"I'm not a loser," Chiho protested.

"Yeah," Ariana agreed. "Okay, me, Chiho, and these two losers."

Yuki and Akako scowled.

"Whatever," Yuki said, obviously still asleep. "At least I'm not being stalked by the Pretties."

"What's that supposed to mean?" I asked, my voice low and threatening.

"Nothing," Ariana said quickly.

"It means nothing," Chiho agreed.

"Just mumbling," Akako agreed. "She's still asleep, you know."

"No, it meant something, or she wouldn't said it," I said, eyes locked on Yuki's sleepy ones. "So, I want to know what."

"It means, you must be a true bubblehead or else the Pretties wouldn't want you," Yuki mumbled, still half-asleep. "They hate anyone who has a brain."

"You're right," I muttered.

"She is?" Ariana and Chiho squealed. "No, she's not!"

"I must be stupid," I continued. "Or else I wouldn't be hanging out with you!"

And with those words, I got up and stormed out of the room.

Forgiveness, that's all I needed from you.
Only you can pull me through.
I'm fighting.

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Ariana's POV

I burst into Kaede's room, squealing, "Kaede!"

"And these losers, too," I added, gesturing towards Yuki, Akako, and Chiho, mock-dismissively.

We had a brief argument over who was the loser in the group, but the playful chatter soon turned to screaming between Kaede and Yuki.

"SHUT UP," someone screamed through the wall, and something hit the wall, making a loud THUD that nobody besides Chiho or me noticed. We glanced at each other and tried not to laugh.

"Well, maybe I should just go be a Pretty!" Kaede screamed through the closing door.

I'm fighting.

I groaned. "Yuki, what the heck?"

I looked at her. Yuki's eyes were open now, although clouded with confusion. Her head was tipped to the side.

Where do you go
when the lights have consumed you?
So thick you can hardly move through.

"What just happened?" she asked.

"You just drove Kaede onto being a PRETTY!" we screamed at her.

"Nice timing," Chiho mumbled.

"What? How? I was totally asleep!" Yuki was protesting. "I mean, I sorta remember talking, but I don't know what I said."

"You dork!" I squealed. "So, Kaede just went for Pretty-doom because Yuki was sleep talking?"

Where do you go
when you don't recognize your face?
And you pray for Redemption Day?

At that moment Kaede stormed back in, and for a second I thought she'd heard.

But she just walked right past us and into her closet, before pulling out a pair of shoes, jamming them on her feet, and muttering, "Some friends."

She slammed the door on the way out.

I know that I can't run from my mistakes.

Seconds later, Kaede stormed back in and grabbed her backpack. "Damn it!"

Then she left again.

So where do you go when you've gone too far?
You open up your arms.
I want to believe that love has the heart to
take me back home.

"Dramatic exit ruined," Chiho announced, laughing.

But the room was silent. Because the rest of us, with our city-standard hearing, could hear Kaede's final threat, where Chiho's unsurged ears could not.

"I'll show them. We Pretties can do anything we want."

And there were just two words that scared me in that threat:

"We Pretties..."

I want to believe that love has the heart to
take me back.
Take me home…

A/N: -dramatic music- Okay, you all know what's coming next, don't you? Hello, read the summary. Know what the story is about.